#3 What is your biggest takeaway from the story?Ruby Rockford and I are meant to be.I just have to prove it to her.

For the entirety of my adult life, I've been content.Content in my single lifestyle, content in my stressful-but-extremely-successful job as the main corporate counsel for almost every Fortune 500 company in North America, and content in my playful, spontaneous ways.

I had no idea it was possible for someone to change my mind.

The endless women and work are no longer enough, and just as Ruby Rockford told me--it's about time I grow up.

It's going to take a strategic attack from more than a couple brilliant minds to win her affection, but luckily, I know exactly where to find the right guys for the job...The Billionaire Book Club.

It's safe to say that I, Caplin Hawkins, the man most women would call The Ultimate Player, have finally met my match, and man oh man, has my end game changed.

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I can’t say that I was overly impressed with this book. For one thing, the authors claimed it was so laugh out loud funny that you shouldn’t read it in public. Except for one short guffaw somewhere in the middle over a comment about donkey farmers, believe me when I say that there was no danger of strangers questioning your actions.The story was extremely predictable with an arrogant jerk for a hero, a stuffy heroine who knows she needs to stay away from the hero because she knows his “type”, but falls for him anyway, and the hero becoming a smelly, pathetic mess when he inevitably realizes he loves the woman he pushed away. Even the appearance of the original billionaires doesn’t help lift the story out of the same old, same old quagmire.

I’m not going to sugarcoat it, I’m not easing into it, I’m not beating around the bush, I’m just going to own it – I fluffing love Max Monroe. Their books, plain and simple, just make me happy. Creative, imaginative plots, endearing, relatable characters and romances that are as heart-tugging as they are heart-racingly sexy, Max and Monroe deliver the goods every single time. Uproariously hilarious comedy that skims the edge of ridiculous, the humor in their stories is unparalleled. This is the kind of stuff that will have you laughing audibly, snorting out your hilarity for all to hear, so consider yourself warned should you attempt reading their books in public.

I laughed the entire way through this romantic comedy. While The Billionaire Book Club is a complete standalone, if you’ve read The Billionaire Boss Next Door or My Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend, you’ve met the insufferably cocky, womanizing playboy, Caplin Hawkins. I’ll be honest, because it isn’t anything the authors haven’t heard before, but I went into this not really liking Cap—not even really wanting to like him. But this guy… he wore me down. He was a blundering, ill-intentioned mess for most of the book for crying out loud! And still—STILL—I wound up loving the guy. That’s the thing, though, it’s exactly these kinds of redemptions that are the sweetest and most rewarding.

Ruby Rockford was her own kind of mess, though, too. Busy, busy, busying herself through life, she seemed to have forgotten not only how to have fun, but to actually follow through and do it. She didn’t know what to make of Cap and his nonsense, and boy, did she ever fight him and their chemistry hard. She gave him a run for his money, and I absolutely loved how she didn’t fawn all over Cap or fall at his feet like every single woman before her. She was precisely the ego-check this maniac needed! For all of Cap’s absurdity, though, he was exactly the breath of life that Ruby needed.

The Billionaire Book Club was classic Max Monroe—a fabulous blend of sweet, sexy romance and side-splitting, laugh-yourself-silly, smiling ear-to-ear humor that readers have come crave this author. An exceptionally well executed, light-hearted pleasure to read, I devoured this book until my abs, cheeks and throat all ached from my laughter. Five smooches from me for The Billionaire Book Club by Max Monroe!

4,0 van 5 sterrenCap May Be Thatch 2.0 - Not a Better Version but Similar Nonetheless!

18 september 2019 - Gepubliceerd op Amazon.com

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I haven’t anticipated a character’s story as much as I wanted and needed Caplin Hawkins’ story; in fact, I’d say it’s probably been since I impatiently waited for Thatch’s story, so the fact that I get both my main men in The Billionaire Book Club made me that much more ready to see what Max Monroe had in store for Cap and what woman would come into his life and bring him to his knees.

What I find interesting about Caplin’s contentedness is the fact that his job as a lawyer and the money in his bank account should allow him to live an extraordinary life - one that is so far above content that anyone would be jealous of the life he lives and the people and things he surrounds himself with…but he’s not, and a certain sassy woman shows him that he should want more…that he should open his horizons, so to speak, in ways that he never took the time to view or even felt like he wanted.

I do have to admit that Caplin is definitely an acquired taste, and I honestly think some readers may not like his attitude or his view on how his life should be lived, but, then again, some readers would say that about Thatch and I’ve been all about him since Max Monroe introduced readers to him. Now, I’m not saying that Cap is a complete douche, but there are times in the story that he frustrated the heck out of me and I wanted to slap a bit of sense into him and make him open his eyes in order to see the woman and the life staring back at him.

Ruby Rockford is quite the heroine, which is good because she’s going to need to hold her ground when it comes to the man who sees her as a challenge the minute she doesn’t fall for his charming ways and swoon over him. And even though she may be a bit of a hot mess at times, she is a strong and independent woman who refuses to bow down to a man who doesn’t deserve her until he truly understands that what they can have is so much more than the contentment he seems to demand.

The supporting cast of characters in Cap and Ruby’s story added to the shenanigans and the hilarity of the book because of their meddling ways as well as the fact that they weren’t afraid to tell it like it is when it comes to relationships and the missteps that can be taken. The Book Club/Poker Night scenes were some of my favorite because it allowed me an inside look at quite an interesting group of characters as well as the perspectives that come along with them. I truly couldn’t get enough of how these scenes were written and just how much Thatch reigns over his fellow members.

The Billionaire Book Club is an adorable romantic comedy that begins with quite an entertaining ‘meet cute’ for the hero and heroine and then proceeds to offer a plethora of scenes that had me laughing out loud, and, of course, any book that includes one of my favorite alpha males of all time - Thatch - is always going to be a great read.